In a recent golf outing Phil brought out his camera and a ball analyzer. Well, they are called something else, but it's not coming to me... It will, but it may take a paragraph or two.
The analyzer said that my swing speed with the driver was 84 MPH. On my instruments I see about 10 MPH higher than that. Phil also sent along the video of my swing. Well, guess what, apparently I have no shoulder turn!
This is a problem theoretically. Interestingly I've been hitting the driver well lately. Ah, it's not going far, but it's in the fairway and matching the distances of my homies, so it's not too bad. But with a shoulder turn, it ought to be a bit bolder.
The launch monitor (Ha! there it is!) calculated that I have a 1.52 smash factor (SF). SF is the ratio of ball speed to club speed. If your club speed was 100 MPG and the ball was 100 MPH then the SF is 1.00. I believe the theoretical limit is 1.5, so 100 MPG club speed gets you 150 MPH ball speed. Thus it looks like something is off a bit But we are not talking about less than one percent error.
Here is the plan for a bit: Play pickleball on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, then a short lunch, let my back recover from the pickleball, then off to the golf range in the afternoons to work on my shoulder turn. I have a launch monitor too and I'll see if I can record some data and see if I can make a change.
Phil and company are usually playing on Tuesday and Thursdays, so I'll be seeing if my golf training will bear any fruit.
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